RE: Artist of the Decade?

[David Cantwell]

At 03:46 PM 4/22/99 -0500, JP wrote:

>Achtung Baby! is a deathly serious record.  It's also their most literate
>and musical. 

You know, in some ways this is probably right. I'd nominate either Achtung
or Joshua Tree as their best over all albums. But, as far as artist of the
90s goes, Achtung is hardly representative of the band's work this
decade--you could argue in fact that it works so well precisely because
it's the culmination of what they'd done well all through the 80s. --david
cantwell